Packet 12: Bonus 9
This self-proclaimed creator of the first Hebrew crossword puzzle proposed a “bisociation” theory of creativity. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Hungarian author, journalist, psychoanalyst, paranormal investigator, and Lamarckist. This ex-communist fictionalized the Stalinist show trials in Darkness at Noon.
ANSWER: Arthur Koestler [or Kösztler Artúr]
[10m] In a book titled for this phrase, Koestler claimed that primitive and developed parts of the triune brain conflict in a “holarchy.” The Concept of Mind originated this metaphor for dualism, which it deems a category mistake.
ANSWER: “the ghost in the machine” (Gilbert Ryle wrote The Concept of Mind.)
[10h] Koestler cranked out a bestselling Encyclopœdia of Sexual Knowledge with the writer of Like a Tear in the Ocean, who had this surname. His son, a cognitive scientist with this surname, co-wrote The Enigma of Reason with Hugo Mercier.
ANSWER: Sperber [accept Manès Sperber; accept Dan Sperber]
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